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Description

An example of a hand operated butter churn used for farmhouse manufacture of butter in the 1800s to the early 1900s. It would likely have held around 40 pounds of butter.

Identification

Object type
Image
Date
1899
Digitisation ID
2007N_D49_TEC_1243
Held In
"Coolstore"

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